They shut down Disney Channel to turn Disney + back into a streaming channel. Their business decisions don’t make any sense.

What a scam. Then they'll parcel out those channels, you'll pay more depending on which ones you pick, ads included. STOP PAYING FOR THIS SHIT!

I’m still not interested in anything Disney puts out.

Careful Kneon! Last time I told people that streaming is just becoming the new cable I got called a liar.

Whatever model they go with doesn't matter. They'll still fill it with absolute trash no one wants to pay for.

I'm old enough to remember back in '98 when execs who were confused and infuriated by this strange internet thing were just certain turning it into TV and print was what people really wanted and called it "push content".

This is like the physical Amazon bookstore that opened up near me last year. Which then closed down and got replaced by a Barnes & Noble.

It's basically what Tubi and PlutoTV are already doing

Iger is showing his roots as an ABC newscaster, since only someone from that industry could be so delusional that they think the problem with cable TV was the branding...

One day all of the streaming apps will combine into one, creating......CABLE! They continue to reinvent the wheel.

It doesn’t matter how they package it. Disney needs to make products worth watching before any of this matters.

People are watching old shows that wouldn't be made today THATS HOLLYWOOD PROBLEM It means that people DONT CARE FOR WOKE

So, it's basically cable TV reboot, but made for "modern audiences"?

They’re finally admitting to what we’ve been saying all along: Streaming is the new cable.

The thing is a lot of people don't know what they want to watch. This brings back the experience of channel surfing.

TV/Cable: "You could not live with your own failure...And where did that bring you....Back to me..."

The only background shows you need are Star Trek, Supernatural, and Xfiles. Remember when Apps started it was all about being able to pay for only what you wanted and not packages? What happened?

That's pretty much how I grew up, I didn't have cable and had to really navigate with the TV guide to find TV shows and movies and I watched a lot of syndicated shows that were from the 60s-70s-80s, same with movies and I hope the younger generations go through this too because if you watch the older stuff you notice a lot of the same kind of topics come up, young people vs adults, women fighting to be seen and so many things that today they try and play off as new and progressive, whenever I see younger people react to older content and see diversity and strong female characters they are so surprised thinking it's so progressive when those of us who grew up with this just see it as normal.

Looks like the venture capital finally dried up. We have truly come full circle

Funny thing, the wife and I dumped cable before streaming was common, Netflix was the only streamer, and we didn’t have it. We watched dvds and would hit goodwill & half price books and Kmart to buy series and movies on the cheap. We currently have no streaming service or cable. The only thing we have is an antenna that is a hold over from when our daughter was young to watch pbs kids.

Hard, offline, and content-full copies are what people demand for ownership. Streaming services are basically rental services.

This is the dumbest idea imaginable. I'm gen X. I don't watch cable. I don't know anyone who watches cable other than MY parents. I don't watch many streaming sites. I buy maybe ONE subscription to a streaming service for one show, and then typically don't find anything else I want to watch, so I cancel. I spend most of my free time when I'm watching something on KZfaq. Free beats streaming. Streaming demolishes cable. Cable became garbage when they started showing you ads for a PAID service on pretty much every channel. There is no competitive advantage cable has over any streaming platform. This is the technological equivalent of saying "Well, our office phones are too expensive, so we're cutting them off and going back to telegrams".

How about Disney make their content _good_ for once? Then maybe you'll get people coming and staying on your streaming service!

This is more Spaghettis against the wall. One reason people stream these days is because they're used to organizing overwhelming selections. The only reason to watch "TV" is because it's free, and now not even that thanks to Roku.

nice bring back toy commercials!! and Saturday morning cartoons..my kids would appreciate it

I remember when cord cutting was the ideal alternative for someone like me back in 2015. Not anymore, now it's just cable TV all over again.

It always makes me happy when there's an Airwolf or Street Hawk reference on your show

Just keep sailing while they keep falling

Never bought any "streaming service", never will.

The problem is fees Don't always cover the cost of the service. Advertising however can pay for the whole thing, so it's back to the TV style business model where the advertiser is the real customer.

It’s channel drift. Just like when SiFi was full of wrestling and the History Channel was all pawn shops.

Become? It's already here. When they started bundling EPSN and other broascast companies, it's basically paying for cable for select channels. Welcome back to cable tv, but without the box

if the whole point of streaming was to watch uninterrupted by commercials, but they have ads now thennnnnnnnn........I mean I guess people sure did cut the cord....and connected through wifi instead.

It’s my favorite part of society when understood terms are no longer used properly. Cutting the cord now just means you don’t watch commercials as opposed using a streaming app instead of cable or satellite to avoid appointment entertainment 😒

The most recent season of Monsters at Work is currently airing on DIsney Channel even though it's a D+ original

Physical media, and owning what you buy and work for, keep reigning supreme.

So basically theyre pivoting to the 2008 model? Yeah. Thatll work out "well"

"Put radio...on the internet...." XD

Part of the reason people are watching old shows is that, all the new shows that we liked end up cancelled after a single season (e.g. Lockwood and Co.).

We are one lengthy internet outage away from cheap second hand physical media not being as cheap as it is now. Buy your favorites at least.

Soon, it's going to come full circle, where all these studios put their shows back on free TV once again, as they realize that's where the largest audience is, and all that streaming does is shrink the potential audience.

Such Pups ... I grew up watching the Wonderful World of Disney in the 1970s' on Sunday Nights

They don't know what they are doing.

When everyone started their own streaming, I knew thus was coming!!! They want cable pricing to make a return!!! No one wants to go back to $200+ a month again!!!

I need that 1980's action TV channel. Nothing but Airwolf, A-Team, Night Rider, Duke's of Hazzard, Miami Vice, Magnum PI, MacGyver and Baywatch.

You won’t believe the shills I pointed to the Marvels, Disney, Hollywood and Comics being 4 of 20 examples of “woke go broke”. Got told the Marvels was successful because it made millions over here and overseas. That Hollywood has always been hit and miss. And of course the comics response if they have always been woke. “If that is true why is everyone throwing such a big stink now?” They didn’t answer me just insults and pixie dust. It was both infuriating & also funny. Basically if something succeeds it’s because it’s woke but if it doesn’t it’s because of streaming.

I don't know anyone who watches TV on streaming. It's total garbage. Who wants to watch the Wipeout channel or the Family Rulez channel when you can specifically watch what show or movie you want to watch.

Disney Channel is still on cable. I know, because I still have cable and have no desire to give it up. Anyway, I just double checked-Disney Channel is still there.

This isn't Disney related and I know MeTV is making something already brining back a old cartoons channel, but I would kill for them to bring back pre 2015 Boomerang, the bumpers, the shorts, the programming, the announcer, everything about that was amazing!

Hell yeah. This sounds good. Ducktales, Tailspin, Darkwing, Chip and Dale then you have the 80s stuff the shorts Donald and the Twins.. Micky and minnie good shit EDIT : GUMMMMIII BEEEARRRRS!! BOUNCING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE 🕺 🕺

Disney plus’ problem is that they only have 5 things to watch. Marvel, star wars, disney classics, and I think the simpsons. It’s pretty limited unless you’re feeling nostalgic and wanna watch lion king for the 500th time

Meh. Still better than being forced to pay for everything for a year in a contract. Now I can get whatever channels I want for a month at a time and cancel right away.

I totally disagree about Friends. Just because something gets a bunch of seasons doesn't mean it's good quality. Big Bang Theory is objectively terrible and proves all you need is a pretty girl & a laugh track.

When will Great Horned Mickey finally be slain?

You don’t say…. I would have never guessed that people just want to be entertained and don’t want “the message” slam down their throat every time they watch TV. Also, I can concur that. Yes, our family has completely reverted to old TV shows and old video games.

What was the point of cord cutting? Answer: Nothing, not one thing

TUBI or not TUBI?

I heard that Roku TV is not a buy, but for rent. If they want to force arbitration on you, they will. We don't have that in Asia, but I guess American like it that way.

aren't streaming services just rental places for online seeing how what if you wanted to watch something offline? You can't go ONLINE when your internet is out. Even for TV you NEED online. they need to pander to both sides of the isle who don't mind the online rental practically vs people who actually want ownership to seeing their shows..... beside, it's not gonna work. Ads upon ads upon ads included it'll be worse then commercials. at least you get a good 5-8 minute break inbetween, with a pause here, it'll just interrupt what you're watching. I guess it's good for kids if you want to put something friendly on for them and know that they won't be groomed as your back is turned, but when an ad happens that's 30 seconds of your kid either waiting or gonna do something while waiting lmao. just saying for something you PAY for to have, as an online service and still have to pay for no ads or even get ads that is literally no different from paying for a t.v paying for the electric bill for that t.v and then still getting ads. Disney is dumb.....at least I'd never do that, but sadly I don't...exactly have a streaming service to offer lol. though I don't NEED to go back and watch shows like that when I go to a pirated website for free anyway with adblockers and a VPN so that way I can watch whatever I wanted anyway. including those shows old shows new shows and movies if I want too.

It's not that hard to figure out: streaming doesn't pay enough. These streaming services need commercials to pay their bills. ABC, NBC and CBS died and now the same thing will be Netflix and two other streaming networks with commercials. Not hard to figure out😅

Streaming was always a terrible idea. I don't need to pay double or even triple of what I'm paying for cable just so I can watch EVERYTHING I like.

TV survived as background noise because it did not know if you were watching or not. But these streaming platforms pause if you won't do anything for a while. Ads can be paused or restarted if you leave the browser. That's gonna piss people off.

Yeah, go buy a TV with Roku built-in. Then watch them brick it if you don't agree to their blackmailing... Or that none of your bluetooth devices (headphones, surround sound) will pair to it...

I love Pluto. Lots of great old movies.

I remember watching a Care Bears movie where a girl actually dies at the end until the bad guy's henchman realizes that he likes her. Still, it was pretty dark for a kids show.

There was an interesting video, recently, talking about the Australian TV series "Bluey," kids series, having 29% of Disney+ viewership. Where was Micky Mouse and Donald Duck and things like Duck Tales? Disney didn't need a lot to make Disney+ successful. Their marketing team should be fired, as well as Bob Iger, and a lot of people making decisions there.

If it has the old 2000's/ early 2010s style bumpers, like the Wand ID's and "Coming up next its the sweet life of Zack and Cody, only on Disney Channel." I will 100% watch it!

Star Wars Clones, Rebels The movies at 8PM and so on. There are like 24+ hours of The Clone wars animated cartoon.

Why would anyone want to watch Disney now anyway. It's not how it's "packaged" it's the content of it's work. Disney has totally lost the ability to "story tell" which was their ONLY function.

5:40 as tempting as an all 80s/90s Disney Channel sounds, we all know they'd fumble the ball if it comes down to it. And I don't think they'd even do that, because the people at Disney now *hate* the creatives who came before them, they won't willingly want attention given to others, even at the detriment of the company itself.

They’re desperate…. And they’re not bring back old/new customers because they destroyed their reputation and trust.

"Make TV antennas great again!" A one time cost with the right antenna,scan for local channels,and there you go! Forget about streaming! Plus over the air TV has better picture quality anyway.

{Smirk} ... waiting for announced $5 DVD specials at Walmart. 😂

Kneon, go further back, a Disney Classics station with their old stuff like Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood, The Love Bug, That Darn Cat and other older stuff.

Howdy Geeky! Hi Kneon.

If these streaming services start following suit and creating "tv packages" then you know the destruction of streaming was intentional from the start. This is why a non-compete clause should be an illegal practice among many dysfunctional business practices in the US.

I really miss when TV only had like 12-14 channels at most and the quality was WAY better then today because people HAD to be good enough to get on TV. That and there wasn't as many drama lamas running around and no reality TV shows. Oh well at least there are DVD's and media players still to watch things without having to have a service. Even the big services like Comcast, Dish, etc have all those channels but there isn't anything good on over 1000 channels most days. I think the best thing on Dish right now is the screen saver channel which changes each month and that's what I had After Dark for back in the early computing days which had flying toasters on my screen. More entertaining even back then. Oh well I'm old.

When I had Hulu and Netflix, it used to be pretty easy finding an old show. Last time I used it at a friend's, it seemed as though new shows were the only things they categorized.

Hopefully this lowers the price of disney+ streaming but i doubt that it will...

Personally I’m about to cancel all of my streaming channels esp Max and Disney . I’m going back to socialized viewing (cable)

In a way Im kinda glad cuz I miss the crative inerstitial programming that gave Disney channel its personality. I dont like seeing deadpool and gravity falls next to each other in a boring interface. Like imagine disney releases a good tv series and each episode gets premiered live so it basically becomes like the hype of old television cuz everyone gets to watch the same thing at once.

I have forgot Disney channel is also 41 years old this month . I was a 11 I was jealous missing out when they had no ads in the 80s and early 90s

I've noticed over the years that yes a lot of the older films/games are a lot more popular. Ironic isn't it?😄

I mean the recreated Disney Channel broadcasts and blocks from 1980s-2000s with the old school commercials and advertisements included that were made by various YT content creators seem to do a better job at it than what current Disney is doing and the best part it’s free

2024 you never need to ask for someones gender just like the first manuals and humans there's TWO and it's usually easy to tell who's which one.. it's a birth thing

The biggest annoyance with streaming for me is whenever there is a software update on any of these apps, it forces me to type in my username and password again in with my television remote. After a long day at work, access television shows should be friction-less.

The whole streaming wars thing feels like a foreign conflict to me. I mostly just watch shit on KZfaq, I go to Tubi for movies, and anything not on there I just pirate. Legit just fuck the streaming services, I don't care.

This was always the end goal once the cord-cutting began. Streaming (Netflix) was likely just viewed to be the same thing as Blockbuster, until it started picking up steam and eyeballs stayed on Netflix. The whole net neutrality debate ended up becoming true, just not the way it was argued. The internet itself didn't become packaged, but the content providers paywalled themselves anyway. All of these streaming services now have tiered packages, and the only promise with them is "fewer commercials." That's why I refuse to buy back into streaming services.

I'm not going to lie, if they somehow pull off doing a channel that had 80s and 90s disney, where you can watch the hobbit, Rudolph's shiny new year, and a Godzilla movie all in one sitting followed by an episode of two of The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh or ducktales? I'm totally there❤

Maybe they'll go the route of some YT channels, where they show entire slates of old school programing, as in "hey, here's what was broadcast on the Sci Fi channel in 1996" and it's literally what was shown, commercials, bumpers, everything. They can be rather nostalgic, and could be worth watching if they did it right.

I would be interested in a Disney Channel that showed the classic shows and movies (50's, 60's, and 70's). Until then, Hello DVDs!

Remember The Wuzzles ...?

I cut the cable because of ads, realty shows and leftwing politics and moved to streaming so I could binge series. Now I unsubscribed to streaming because of a) it has become bloody expensive b) woke (leftwing) content c) more and more reality shows and d) ads. To be honest I also quit going to the cinema (with a few exceptions because of woke lecture/infantile content. Inflation is also playing a role. Food and energie has become so incredibly expensive. Ah well... no wories there are other ways, I still have quite a series catalogue & love reading. I'm literally surrounded by thousands of books . And the kids have their games (in and outside). But I can't deny; I miss old Netflix (before the Obamas destroyed it) when it gave us great (non-woke) series to binge.

First physical media makes a vengeful comeback and now it's basic television.

If and I say a big IF this happens I hope they give us a return to Toon Disney and possibly a Vault Disney channel which would air golden age Disney live action movies and animation.

Protip to Hollywood: JUST SUPPLY WHAT PEOPLE DEMAND! Seriously, basic merchant wisdom is to determine what someone wants then sell it to them for a profit! Why do they literally ignore what people clearly want, supply something no one wants, then do the surprised Pikachu face when it flops? Start being daring again! Scare kids! KIDS LIKE BEING SCARED!!! Sell people what people want to buy!

Bump In The Night was mid-ish nineties, and THAT show literally contributed to my depression. Wasn't all that far back.

Love 90s 📺. Hope this is spelled correctly for the grammar police.

So basically the wheel has turned back to where it started? They saw a fad and thought it was a good idea... just like DEI/ESG.

As a 34 year old man, I recently went back into my PC game library to play older games like Assassin Creed Brotherhood and then 2. There's nothing on the market that interest me into purchasing except for undisputed, an indie early access boxing game